Frank Lautenberg

Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (23 January 1924-3 June 2013) was a US Senator from New Jersey (D) from 27 December 1982 to 3 January 2001 (succeeding Nicholas F. Brady and preceding Jon Corzine) and from 3 January 2003 to 3 June 2013 (succeeding Robert Torricelli and preceding Jeffrey Chiesa).

Biography
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg was born in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey in 1924, and he served in the US Army during World War II. After the war, he worked as a salesman for Prudential Insurance and became the CEO of Automatic Data Processing in 1975 after years of working as a salesman. He was a major Democratic donor before himself running for the US Senate in 1982, and he defeated Howard Baker with 54.1% of the vote. In 2000, he decided to retire from the Senate, believing that Republican candidates Christine Todd Whitman or Thomas Kean would beat him if they ran. However, he almost immediately regretted the decision, as neither of them ran, and Jon Corzine succeeded him. In 2002, he was elected to the Senate once more, succeeding Robert Torricelli. He was considered the last of the New Deal liberals, and he supported legislation against drunk driving, increased funding for Amtrak and urban public transportation, stronger environmental regulations, greater consumer protections, and investigations into the wrongdoings of Wall Street. He died in office in 2013 at the age of 89.